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Two decades after former MP John Stonehouse tried to fake his own death, John Darwin set off in a canoe to follow a similar plot - but this time it wasn't driven by an affair, it was for money

The London mayor said Boris Johnson 'used to have a future' and 'I could have him' as he visited a boxing gym in the capital with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley

Michael Haight, 42, killed his wife and five children along with his mother-in-law in the town of Enoch, Utah, police have said, following a divorce being filed

Russell Causley made history as the first UK prisoner to face a public parole hearing - he was convicted of killing his 40-year-old wife Carole Packman after she went missing in 1985

Reports and images on social media suggest a shoot-out took place before the arrest of Ovidio Guzmán in the community of Jesús María while parts of Mexico were blocked off by armed police

According to David Crouch, pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos killed his daughter Caroline Crouch after she discovered he was trafficking drugs in a suburb of Athens in Greece

Police arrested Zachary Mills, 21, for holding his victim at his apartment on Kuykendahl Road in Houston, Texas, and sexually assaulting her, after meeting her on the dating app Bumble

The 33-year-old personal trainer from London was found with gunshot wounds to his head and upper body two days after arriving in Jamaica in order to visit family

Eight dead bodies including five children have been found in a Utah home with gun shot wounds. A police investigation is underway although there is not thought to be a threat to the public

Eduardo Moreno, the CEO of tech company SeaDrone Inc, which supplies underwater drones to the US Navy, was arrested after being tackled by witnesses

Prison guards Jennifer Gavan, 27, Ayshea Gunn, 27, and Emily Watson, 26, have all been jailed for having inappropriate romantic relationships with inmates while working at the HMP Berwyn in Wrexham, Wales

Cameron Johnson has been sentenced to three years behind bars for biting, punching and strangling his fiancée during two vicious attacks that left her fearing for her life

A teenager was filmed running from a crowd of men in the city of Sulaymaniyah, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, before being surrounded by them. She was insulted and beaten, according to locals

John Jessop, 26, had been in a brief relationship with mum-of-three Clair Ablewhite, 47, and he killed her six days after she ended things, Nottinghamshire Police said today

Gary Glitter - who could walk free in weeks - is on a vulnerable person wing at HMP The Verne on the Isle of Portland, Dorset, and is worried that a 'psycho' will attack him if he leaves

Shocked bystanders tried to intervene and pull the girl away as the officer appeared to rain 'hammer strikes' (a punch banned in boxing) down on her head on Staten Island, New York, US

Mum-of-two Karina Melisa Rodríguez, 34, was killed by an identified man in her shop in La Entrada, Copán, Honduras, while waiting for her application to move with her family to the US

A four-year-old boy allegedly dropped £60 at Smyths Toys at Anglia Retail Park in Bury Road in Ipswich on December 27 and it is alleged an unknown man picked it up and left the shop with the cash

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: Leila Eftetahi fled the ultra-conservative pilgrimage city of Mashhad, Iran, in 2015 with her husband Ali - who was punished twice with 82 vicious lashes for alcohol consumption charges after being caught DJing

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: Horrified officers from Gresham Police reportedly arrived at Cleveland Transit Station to see the suspect, Koryn Kraemer, 25, still on top of the victim, biting his face off

Emergency services rushed to the scene on the dangerous stretch of road in Northern California known as the Devil's Slide. Rescue teams said it was an "absolute miracle" none of them died

Bryan Kohberger attended court to waive his extradition hearing clearing the way for him to taken to Idaho to face charges of murdering four University of Idaho students in their beds

Jeanette Irvine needed 11 stitches and her neck glued back together after she was left with a nine-inch slash, following a night out in Arbroath, Scotland

Jesse Hawthorne, who was born Jessica, was asked to leave the pub after dipping his prosthetic penis into a pub-goers pint glass. Customers at the bar were offended by his prank

Never-before-seen footage of killer Andrew 'Jack' Hooper confessing to the murder of Cheryl Hooper in Newport, Shropshire has been revealed, as he lay in hospital following his own bungled suicide bid after the killing